This collection contains twelve new stories from one of Ireland's master storytellers. Set mostly in Ireland, they show the author to be writing at the height of his powers. In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never some from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance. Trevor writes with understatement and precision about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives.